astonished - Story 10058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop door creaked open, announcing Maya's arrival with a groan. She was looking for a cheap camera. The ring in the display case, she found herself staring at it. It was a golden band with a ruby, her Great-Aunt Evelyn’s, a woman she never knew.

She felt a strange disconnect. The world seemed to slow down. She reached out, her fingers twitching. Every muscle in her body was tensed. She couldn’t look away. It was a tangible piece of her family history, right there in front of her.

"Can I help you, dear?" The shop assistant was looking at her funny. Maya pointed, then, shook her head.

Emotion: astonished

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -0.84 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion astonished. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 astonished stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the astonished emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the astonished vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.448
`de`	0.350
`la`	0.323
`l`	0.307
`incred`	0.266

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.289
`cheerfully`	-0.231
`enjoyed`	-0.224
`开心`	-0.221
`ี่ยว`	-0.219